Senior Frontend Engineer - DoneDeal.ie

What’s the Opportunity

At DoneDeal.ie and Adverts.ie, we power Ireland's largest online marketplaces, connecting millions of people every month to buy, sell and discover the perfect items for them. In addition DoneDeal Cars is Ireland's largest marketplace for cars, providing the widest selection of cars from both private sellers and trusted dealers. With over 3 million monthly users, our platforms sit at the heart of Irish life. 

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Frontend Engineer, to work on the DoneDeal web application. The successful candidate should have at least 6 years of similar experience, be up-to-date with modern frontend technologies, a passion for building intuitive web experiences and will thrive in a high performance, fast paced, ambitious and fun environment.

This is more than just a technical role, you and your team will own some of the most important parts of our marketplaces: user trust and safety, fraud prevention, user accounts, ad creation, private seller monetisation and provide support and tooling for our world-class CX team.

You’ll be part of one of our multi-functional product delivery teams and will work closely with designers, product owners, and multi-disciplined developers.

* This is a remote-first position within Ireland.

What will I be doing

Frontend Engineers are a crucial part of the Distilled Product Delivery Teams. Working closely with the design team, we implement responsive user interfaces, using modern libraries and frameworks, such as React, Typescript and NextJS.

As a Frontend Engineer at Distilled you will:

• Take responsibility for defining and delivering the solution for complex features for the DoneDeal platform

• You can work independently or mentor junior team members successfully

• Build efficient and reusable frontend systems for the Distilled platforms

• Exploring generative AI opportunities to help build better products faster

• Enjoy building web interfaces that have intuitive usability

• Always strive to ensure our codebase is clean, scalable and secure

• Be an advocate for coding standards within the team

• Keep abreast of new technologies and techniques in frontend development

What skills and experience do I need

• At least 6 years demonstrated ability in a similar role

• Excellent HTML, CSS and Javascript skills. Experience with Typescript is also highly desirable.

• Significant experience delivering fully responsive web solutions using mobile first techniques and React framework.

• Experience working with Next.js and Restful APIs

• Unit and integration testing experience using tools such as Jest, Cypress and Playwright 

• Very familiar with and a daily user of AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Cursor

• Strong communications skills - the ability to share ideas and influence outcomes, working and collaborating with team members

• Ability to thrive independently and work on your own initiative, while also being a strong teammate

Advantage if you have

• Good understanding and experience with NodeJS

• Web app performance experience

• JS bundler experience (webpack)

• Experience with Styled Components or Storybook

• Experience working with monorepo’s

• Experience working with design systems to build reusable components

What’s it like to work here

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovatio

Benefits - what you can expect

• Our goal is to maintain a culture where people look forward to work – whether they're in one of our centrally-located offices in Dublin and Wexford or working remotely, which is optional for all employees.

• We do that by making Distilled a place you'll be listened to and trusted to do your job. Where you can have fun, learn and feel appreciated. And where you get focused career development, growth and progression opportunities.

• We want you to feel confident that this is the right place for you, your career, your wellbeing and your future.

• Above all, your health and wellbeing are at the forefront of how we build the business. That means looking after you while you're here and later in life. So you'll receive life insurance, fully-paid healthcare and a 5% contribution towards your pension.

More about Distilled

We exist to make buying and selling in Ireland simple.

We put our people first, creating an inclusive environment where we can develop products that put our users first. We value people’s work and time, creating a community where they have an opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Our challenge is to enhance our market-leading products using insights and empathy to present our users with the perfect match.

What we build is technology, but what we do is create connections for life’s most meaningful moments. We are Distilled and we bring people together.

Our Values

We have five core values: We have a growth mindset. We like to simplify things and make things happen. We collaborate across teams, business units and brands. We're passionate about what we do.

These values give us a framework for leadership and daily decision making. They embody how we behave and present ourselves — as individuals and as a business — both internally and externally for our colleagues, our users and our customers.

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.